SPTS Presented with a Special Achievement Award at Analog Devices’ Annual Awards Ceremony

YAVNE, ISRAEL | ORBOTECH LTD. (NASDAQ: ORBK) today announced that SPTS Technologies, an Orbotech company and supplier of advanced wafer processing solutions for the global semiconductor and related industries, was presented with a Supplier Excellence Award in the ‘Special Achievement’ category at the Analog Devices (NASDAQ: ADI) annual award ceremony held in Hong Kong.

The ADI Supplier Excellence Award goes to suppliers that play a key role in ADI’s successes and collaborate with it on development and improvement of products and manufacturing processes. Winners were required to demonstrate exceptional commitment to excellence in manufacturing, leadership in maintaining quality standards and reliability specifications and on-time delivery of goods and services.

“Our strategic suppliers are vital to ADI’s mission to deliver high-performance analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing integrated circuits used in virtually all types of electronic equipment,” said Vince Simonelli, Director of Global Purchasing, Analog Devices. “SPTS was selected for the Special Achievement Award because it consistently demonstrated innovation, responsiveness and exceptional commitment to bringing our new chemical vapor deposition process capability online as specified and on time.”

Kevin Crofton, President of SPTS Technologies and Corporate VP at Orbotech, commented, “We are proud to be recognized as a strategic supplier and partner to ADI, and honored to receive this Special Achievement Award, which underscores the technical excellence of our solutions and the outstanding performance of our support teams across the entire organization.”

About Orbotech Ltd.

Orbotech Ltd. (NASDAQ:ORBK) is a global innovator of enabling technologies used in the manufacture of the world’s most sophisticated consumer and industrial products throughout the electronics and adjacent industries. The Company is a leading provider of yield enhancement and production solutions for electronics reading, writing and connecting, used by manufacturers of printed circuit boards, flat panel displays, advanced packaging, micro-electro-mechanical systems and other electronic components. Today, virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using Orbotech systems. For more information, visit http://www.orbotech.com/.

About SPTS Technologies

SPTS Technologies, an Orbotech company, designs, manufactures, sells, and supports etch, PVD, CVD and thermal wafer processing solutions for the MEMS, advanced packaging, LEDs, high speed RF on GaAs, and power management device markets. With manufacturing facilities in Newport, Wales, Allentown, Pennsylvania, and San Jose, California, the company operates across 19 countries in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. For more information about SPTS Technologies, please visit www.spts.com

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